Special Purpose Vessels – Convenience Boat at Malta – Summer 2023
Are you planning to go out for local cruising and drop your anchors ? In case you chose Malta for your holiday and would like to spend time sailing around and need daily needs with fresh items, Convenience Store Malta came up with a brilliant idea that apart from road delivery, now we have a […]
Special Purpose Vessels – Tidy Thames Refuse Services at River Thames, UK
Thames Gateway Marine (TGM) run a fleet of two self propelled barges that are used for a waste removal service under the Tidy Thames Refuse Services brand. These are the 30.26 Metres waste disposal vessel EILEENA. She was built by De Noord NV Industrieel, Maats, Alblasserdam in Holland in 1930 and delivered to Ajax […]
Special Purpose Vessels – New Barges for recycling and waste management – 2023
CORY is a recycling and waste management company based in London. Originally founded as William Cory & Son in 1896, the company has operated vessels on the River Thames for more than 125 years, transporting a range of commodities and materials including coal, oil, aggregates and waste. Ships from Cory’s fleet supported Britain’s war efforts in both world wars, […]
Special Purpose Vessels – World’s Largest Solar Boat in Malta
The first solar-powered boat to travel around the world, TURANOR PLANETSOLAR was at Malta for a short visit while on her Promotion Tour back in August 2012. Built in Germany for $26,000,0000 in 2010 she was homeported at Basel, Switzerland. Manned by 2 and can carry 50 passengers she was powered by 537 square metres […]
Special Purpose Vessels – ITF Exhibition and Campaign Vessel GLOBAL MARINER at Malta – 1999
Founded in 1896, the International Transport Workers Federation better known as ITF is a confederation of 500 transport workers unions in 125 countries, representing 5 million workers in every branch of transport. During March 1998 a former Bank Line ship was purchased for $3 million and refurbished for a worldwide tour to raise public awareness […]
Special Purpose Vessels – 2 Floating Docks sold from Sicily to Turkey – January 2022
During May 2021 the Palermo based company Vulcano Shipyard Srl won the auction for the purchase of the two floating docks of 19,000 tons and 52,000 tons located in the port of Palermo. The largest one of 52,000 tons left Palermo to Yalova, Turkey last September after she was sold for 2,041,000 Euros and she was […]
Special Purpose Vessels – Floating Dock DOCK 5 – 20.07.2020
Danish family owned ship repair company, Orskov Yard’s newbuilt 180 metres long floating Dock DOCK 5 was delivered on Friday 10th July, 2020 at Hat-San Shipyard in Turkey. On Wednesday 8th May 2019 the steel cutting ceremony for the DOCK 5 took place at Hat-San shipyard. On Monday 9th September, 2019 DOCK 5 was launched […]
